How many Dumbledore-level wizards would you add?

Drachna · Mar 25, 2026

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Worth noting that canon does have the concept of wands as repository of knowledge which contionusly learn from their owners as they are being used, and that the Elder Wand as item handled by many of the most powerful wizards alive in any generation would be sure to contain a ton, which would matter a lot especially if the knoweldge is able to be accessed.
And extra canon materials does pretty much state it did, with Dumbledore's comentary in the Tales of Beedle the bard referencing the Dark Wizard Godelot who apparently wrote Magick Most Evile by tapping into the knowledge of the Elder Wand of who he was the wielder at the time.

A full century later, another unpleasant character, this time named Godelot, advanced the study of Dark Magic by writing a collection of dangerous spells with the help of a wand he described in his notebook as “my moste wicked and subtle friend, with bodie of Ellhorn(Elder), who knowes ways of magick moste evile”. (Magick Moste Evile became the title of Godelot’s masterwork.) As can be seen, Godelot considers his wand to be a helpmeet, almost an instructor. Those who are knowledgeable about wandlore will agree that wands do indeed absorb the expertise of those who use them, though this is an unpredictable and imperfect business; one must consider all kinds of additional factors, such as the relationship between the wand and the user, to understand how well it is likely to perform with any particular individual. Nevertheless, a hypothetical wand that had passed through the hands of many Dark wizards would be likely to have, at the very least, a marked affinity for the most dangerous kinds of magic. Most witches and wizards prefer a wand that has “chosen” them to any kind of second-hand wand, precisely because the latter is likely to have learned habits from its previous owner that might not be compatible with the new user’s style of magic. The general practice of burying (or burning) the wand with its owner, once he or she has died, also tends to prevent any individual wand learning from too many masters. Believers in the Elder Wand, however, hold that because of the way in which it has always passed allegiance between owners – the next master overcoming the first, usually by killing him – the Elder Wand has never been destroyed or buried, but has survived to accumulate wisdom, strength and power far beyond the ordinary.

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That does give some weight to the idea that wands that easily shift their allegiances (though no wand is easier than the elder wand) could be passed down through the generations in a family, becoming increasingly powerful as time went on. This might work exceptionally well for some, and terribly for others, but it might be forced on them anyway, in cases like Neville's. You could also have the opposite effect if you're passing down the wands of inbred incompetents like the Gaunts.

Spanks · Mar 27, 2026

My theory: these types of wizards are exceedingly rare. When they appear they always come as a cluster; the Hogwarts Founders, Merlin vs Morgana, Dumbledore vs Grindelwald and Voldemort, etc. We know fate exists in some fashion so maybe there’s always a counter balance that leads to conflict whenever one of these “Renaissance Men” type wizards appears. Not prophecy, but more like a balancing of the scales.

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